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On Membership in Clubs

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  • Fraser, Clive D.
  • Hollander, Abraham

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Clubs are voluntarily-shared but excludable facilities prone to congestion. Examples include tolled trunk road, the telephone system and "gentlemen's" clubs. Despite 25 years of development, the clubs literature does not contain a satisfactory treatment of the membership of the sharing group which allows for differences in income and/or tastes and for agents' self-selection to club membership or non-membership. This paper provides such a treatment and applies it to profit-maximising and revenue-constrained welfare-maximising clubs and to the analysis of the social organisation of a facility of fixed size.

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  • Fraser, Clive D. & Hollander, Abraham, 1990. "On Membership in Clubs," Economic Research Papers 268381, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uwarer:268381
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.268381
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